faceful
nounEtymology From face + -ful.
1
An amount that fills or covers the face.
- Because l didn't dare take either hand off the wheel, I did get a few facefuls of snow, passing under hemlocks with especially low-drooped branches, but that was a cheap price for getting the tractor safely out.2006, Noel Perrin, Terry Osborne, Best person rural: essays of a sometime farmer, page 81: